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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-1-25, Page 6WWTt -;;.• ;..". TR 4 BitlYSSELS POST, IAN, 20, 100 A, CHEERFUL SPI IT, Tal age Eulogizes Is Father. Rev. not only he able to enjoy the suceese of life, but Who would with or °Win willing hands help to meleve it. And tee, wile father ploughed the fields, end threshed the wbeet, luta broke tho flex, and basked the earn,• Me ?ascilbel stood for Solemon'e eortreithre when he wild, "SU riseile also while, it le yet Bight, mid eyedi meat to Jew hemehela, She lave' b her Mind to Lh epindle, and her halide hold the distaff. She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her home/iota are teethed with scarlet, Her ebildren arise up and oall ber blessea; her bile - Speaks of His Watchful Care and Parental Faithband also, and be praisetb be Melly daughters have done virtuously, but fulness...Lived a Happy and Useful Life.s thou excellest them all." The Dr. Tells of His Saintly Mother—Scene at mete, or princes in our ancestral baronets, or princes in our ancestral His Father's Death.Bed, line. None wore stars, cockade, or crest There was once a Slimily goat- • A despeteh from Wathington, saye: less. It required all the placidity of of -arms but we were none of us \dee —Rev, Dr. Talmage preached frone the DV motheett vole* Lo valin 11110 wn" enougb to tell Its naeaning. Two following Wet: —."The almond-teee once the mouiltain dorm el his eight- eyes, two hands, and two feet were eout wrath was in blast; while as the capital my father started vvith, There were, no lords or her - shall 1lourish,"--11,%01.e51astes aria 5, for himself, he would /submit to tame In Jaimary, Palestine is adorned Imposition, and say nothing, than .with the blossoming of the almeadany man I ever knew. tree. It breathes ite life into that soBt,jaelevflileile girltatoVnetleenttheillvee winter month as a promise of God. „eta eiehsece \ghee he prayed, sometimes ligbts up and. sWeetens the you eould henr in. the very tones ot ms coldness and desolatiou of a sorrow. mace the expectation that Jesus Christ Idi iniquity, Ing epirit. It was not a useless tree, Znethil'n his glory. itulerlYeeeurri-‘tetle made just to bloom and die, or, like This Christian man was not a mire - the willow by the water -courses, to enthrone, did uot think (.bat every.. stand weeping into the stream, but . thing wrie going to ruin, considered It dieputed with terebinte and cassia teih,r :ec'ereird asavte2;0.11%,1 (1:rlae(cleteopetrenInt: for a high place iu Ilse eoramerce of lea took things as they were know - the world. Its wealth bore down the ing that God could and would make dromedaries of the desert, and in ships them Letter. When the heaviest of Tarslaish etruggled with the sea. IS 7ft% °Ilyin ZeTf a035 u•troUnM 113C+a rugged trunk parted into graceful- ' as ever a bather at the beach met thee fulness et branch and burst Into a ' incoming Atlantic, rising up on the lavishness of bloom, till the Temple evit'er .eide nthe wavityisiiaronger than imitated h in the golden caudiestick, Lci'llnargtedi"1. with ut and Tersmiab beheld its braeohes he saug, and whistled, and shaking in his dream: The poem., • leughee. He knew about all tee cheer- ful tunes that were ever printed in o:d granate had. more eretentioue co:our, and ruag out its fragranee with red Zeznal3zynraelaelcti Catoleettio:,' h $etvrlede ttehset blossoming bells, but the almond -tree meledies that Thomas Hastings evsr stood in simple white, as Lf, while 1 compeeed. I think that every filar born of earth, it to take on I to the Somerville tied 13oundLrook the amiarel of those who dwell in chwrphes ir3aw S "rattnent 6331e0311115ing white," so as nHI11..APPY VOICE. o 1 fuaer on earth ecte white them. Wben Ile ,bbtak tmheorpntgh ufanscalerioesat POintngoont the almond -tree was in bulb bloom, it through all the week. I ha.ve heard must have looked like some tree befere him ploughing amid the aggravations our window on a winter's morning, of a "new ground," serving writs, ex - after a nightfall of anew, yaw, its mining deeds, going Le arrest cr:m- brightaess is almost iesufferable, .1Zritheitageajnicrg teliVst'Aetikelehleyn Or fifteen years an invalid, he had a fearful struggle to support Hie LARGE FAMILY. Nothing but faith in pod upheld him. His recital of hap afforded and dada - evinces wrought was more like a re - usenet than a reality. He walked through many a tlesert, but every meemng had its manila and every night its eillar of. fire, and every hard reek a rod tbat could shatter it into crystal fountains at bis feet. More than once. be came to his last dollar, but rigbt belated that last dollar he found Him who owns tee cattle on a thousand hills, and out of the palm of whose hand all the fowls of /maven Pecked their food, and who bath given to each one of his disciples a war- rantee deed for• the whole universe in the words, "All are Yeurse, The path that led him thronith fin- ancial straits prepared him rase for sore bereavements. The infant of days was smitten, and he laid it into the river of death with as much eon- fi•lenne as infant Moses was laid into the .Ark of the Nile, knowing that soon from the royal palace a shining One would coma to fetch it. In an island of the sea, among strangers, almost unattended, de.ath came to a beloved son; and though , remember the darkuess that dropped on the household when the biack- • seinen le' ter was opened, I remember also the utterances of Claristian sub- mission. Another, bearing his osvn name, just on the threshold of manhood, his heart beating high with hope, falls into the dust; but above the cries of early widowhood and the desolation of that dark day I hear the patriarch's every stem a white and feathery the church choir would break down, prayer commending children and chile plume. A row of almond -trees infull everybody looked around to see if he dren's children to the divine sympa- bloom meet have roused. up all the were not !ready with "Woodsteek," thy. "Mount Pisgah," or "Uxexalge." rent a deeper shadow fell across the soul's sense ef purity; and when they old homestead. The "golden sveddine" began to seattee their blossoms, as But few- f • illee fail heir to E0 large had been celebrated. nine years before. a pile of well-st tdied note -books. Be My mother lookee up, pushereback her one by one they fell, it meet have was ready at proper times for all spectacles, and said, "just think of it, seemed like the first straggling flakes kinds of innorent amusement. He father—\70 have been together fifty - of a claill day, coming thMker and often felt a merriment that not only nine years le The twain stood to- tem:hthlips eti e ps but played upon ev- faater, until the herbage, sub tleeply . t gethra like two trees al the forest ery fibresof the body, and rolled down with interlocked branches. But the tinged with matt:neat colouring, is ini o thci very depths of bie soul with hush of death came clown one mit- eovered, and the atomitains that were long reverberations. No one that 1 mans] afternoon, and for the first as scarlet become as ever ltnew understood more fully the time in all my life, on any arrival at WHITE AS SNOW. sicence of a good laugh. He was not home, I received no maternal greet- onty quick to recognize hilarity when Mg, no answer of the lips, no pressure Now you are ready to see the mean- created by others, but was always of the hand. . God Mad taken her. Ing of the text. Soloraoa was givleg ready to do bis share toward making In this overwhelming shock the pat- ' a fu.11-1,•ngth portrait ut an seat man, it. Before extreane old age, he could riareli stood confident, reciting the By striking tigures of speech, he sets outrun and outleap any of leis child- promises and testing the divine good - forth his trembling and decrepittele, ren. ness. Oh, sirs that (0115 faith 1 faith 1 and thee coulee to deseribe the white- But whence this theerfulnees? Some faitb I "Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory!" nese of his leek.s by the blossomiag of Mght aseribe it all to natural 31165051. Finally, I notice that in my father's the almond -tree. It is the master- tien. No doubt there is such el thing old age was to be, seen the beauty of touch oE the pieture, for lee° in that as sunshine of temperament. God 00 sentence not only the appearance Christian activity. 0 gives more brightnems to the almond- Ile lead not retired from the field. al the hair, but an, announcement o2 tree than to the cypress. 'While the pool the beauty of old age. The white, putrifies under the summer sun He had been busy so long, you could ,. m,...e not expect him idle now, . He was locks of a bad, men are but the gaih- God. slips the rill off the rocas eth among the first who toiled in Sab- ered Ereets of the seeond emelt, 1111 "a hoary lame. is a crown of glory" if it a frolicsomeness that fills the 11101111- bath -schools fend never failed t k praise o those institutionesS.Pea tain with echo No doubt eonstitu- be Mune in the way of righteousness. tional structure. had much to de with I th0 NO STORM OR DARKNESS There mae be no colour iti the theik, ere about; tbe Mutt. ExPreesed hts or die feture. Slept esveeta ae a ehlid ever !deist la the 335535 02 moeber, 'Mete hreke forth with lee isteeretlee, "Oood•neee and merey have followed me all the dare or ns' lifer The J3ible that, he lead studied roe so =Me )mare pow east tier light far on info LIM etillee, until the very gate of heiteeet flashed upon his Vision, Some One quetee the passage, "T1118 18 W rnitlfat saYillg, and worthy of ell acceptation, teat Christ Jesus eame into tbe werld to save sinners," "Of whom I am thief," remended the dying Christian. We said, "To live is Christ." Ile enswerect, "To die m vain" And tts if the vision grew mere enreetturiag, he vonlinued to sey, e'To dm 15 Minieters or tile Gospel came in, and after the usual geneumg be mita, "Prase prayl" • no lustre in the eye, no spring in the this theerfulness. bed by a life i ever kept him away from prayer - step, no Pinnaces irt the voice, and yet of obriety, preserved his, ei",esbness d meeting. He went forth yisiLing the around the bead of every old man and vigor. You know that goo ab- sick, burying the dead, collecting alma whose life has beea upright and Chris. its are better than spraking-tubes to , for the poor, inviting the ministers of hund ; . religion to 'his household, in which tian there hovers a glory teepee ee the ear ; better than a staff to the •, than ever shook in ths white tops of Letter than leeeleFe'e to the there wits, as in the ;house of Shunem, the almoud-tree. 12 the voice veneer, throat; better than warm baths to the , a little room over the wall, with bed it is because God is changleg into a foot; better than bitters for the stem- , and candlestick for a.ny passing tone fit for the eelestial choral. If rah. His lips had not been polluted 1 Elisha. Ills charity was not like the the back stoop, it is only becatese the nor his brain befogged by the fumes bursting of the bud of a femme tree body is just about to 11e down in of the noxious weed that has sapped in the South, that fills the wbole for - peaceful sleep. LE the hand tremble, the life of whole generatioxis, sending it is because God IS unloosing it fi•oni worldly disuppointenents to clam it an raging harp and. waving palm. 12 the hair has turned, it is only the gray light of heaven's dawn stream- ing through the scant looks. If the brow, once adorned by a lueuriance of auburn or raven, is smitten witb bald- ness, it is only bemuse Gott is. Pre- paring a place to set the everlastiag crown. The falling of thie good Christian's staff will be the signal for the heavenly gate to swieg open, The scat tering of the alincted Llossoms will only disceseer the setting of the fruit. Elijah's flaming equeiegee. were too tame for this ascending spirit, The arms of Jesus are grand- er than bounding horses of fire! There are lessons far me to learn, and also 2or you, for many of you knew him. The chile of hie old age, I. come to -night to pay a humble tribute to him, who, la the, hour, 02 my' birtb, took me into his wile:beat care, and whom parental faithful. ess, combined with that cif my mother, was the. means of bringing my erring feet. to the cross, and kindling in 1111 soul anticipation of immortal blessedness. if I failed to 'meek, methinks the DM anticipation of immortal blessed.neste lamily Bible, that I brought home, with me, wooed rebuke my silence, and tbe vary walls de my youthful home wou:d tell the story of my ingratitude, I M1J8T SPEAK, though it be with broken utterance, and in terms wait% may' seem too strong for those who never Med an opportunity of gathering the fruit of this luxuriaet almond -tree. let. In my father's old i age was to be eeed the beauty tte a cheerful 1 never remeralser to have heard him make a gloomy expression. This was not bemuse he had no pereeptioh of the pellutions of society. • He eb. barred einything like Impurity, or reed, or double-dealing. He tever failed to lift up hie voted against sin, when ha saw it. /le WaS terrible in his iiidegnaticie agitinst Wrong, end had an tree grip for the throat of hint • wbe trampled on the lielplese. Better meet a lion robLed of her Whelps than him, if yell heel been dealing the bread from the mouth ef the father., We wig some of his favourite hymine sut•h as, "Jems oeit make a dying bed Iveel soft as claimer pillow., are, While on His breed loan my head, And breathe my 'life elle oweetly there." He svotild seem almost to stop breathing in order to linen, and then at the close, svould signieyttliat be ete. 1110111))8r81.1.1110 0.1d WAS mei well, FM said, "I than be gone• thole buts not 1,00 soon," Some one quoted, "Though 1 walk through the valley of the elia- dose of death; 1 -will fear no evil," And he replied, "Thy rod end thy staff they eumfort me." "Can you testify of Gocee faahluluess?" said another, He anewerect, "Yes; I have been young, and now I am old, yeti hare 1. never been the reemeous forsaken, nee his :had begging bread,' He said, "I have it good; i could not have iti any bet- ter; I lee.1 well; all ie well" Agate end again, anu again he repected, 3111 le weal" Teen, liffing his hand, ex- claimed, "PEACE PEA.CE?" On tbe morning et the of Octo- ber, just three years trona the day when tbe soul oi ais companion sped into the heavens, it was evident that the last mument bed -come. Softly the ncws came to all the sleepere the Imuse, and the quiell glance of lights from roan to rots= signalled the coin- ing of the death angel. We took out our witiehes, and said, " Four o'clook and fifteen minutes!" The guise flut- ters us a tree branch lifts and -falls at the motion of a bird's wing about to cleave its way into the heavens. No quids start of pain; ItO glassy stare; but eyelid lightly closed, and_calm lip, and white blossoms of the almond tree. From the stead we tmmed over the old Lianepieee that he had carried so long, and which he thought always went right, and announced, 'Just four o'cluele and twenty minutesi" The tides ef the cold river riding. Fell; of the wrist, but no pules; of the tem- ples, but no stir; of the heart, but no action. We listened, but heard nothing. Still I still I Tne gates of the earthly ex:son-house silently open wid- er and wider. Free 1 Clear the way for the tionquering spirit 1 Shout up- wards 'the tidengs 1 evsn Mini:yen ol the, beeps' to un- timely graves, over which the tomb - Melte declared, "Saerilleed by 0701' - work let the Lord's vineyard,". when, if the merble had net tied, it sveuld have said, "Killed by villaineue tobac- eu I" He abhorred anything tint could intoxicate, being among the first in this country tojoin a crusade against alcoholic beverage When urged, dur- ing a severe eicknese, to lake some stimulus, he said 'N -o; if am to die, let me die Reber I" THIll SWILL OF THE BRENVE.RY had never been poured around the roots of the; thrifty almond. But physical healt h could not ac- count for hat of this unsh ne. Six- ty-four years ago a coal from the bea- venly altar had kindled II limit that :Move brighter taut brigbter to the perfect day. Let, Almighty grace for iearly three-quarters of a century tri- umph in a plates bout, and. do 71,0 seen - der that he is bappy ? For twice the length of your life end mine he had sat in the bower of the prendees, plucking Ills round, ripe 'clusters of Belied. While others bit their tongue for 'thirst, he stood at the wells of ealvatien, and me this lips to the bue- lea that came up dieteiug with the fresh, cool, imarkting water8 of . nal life. A.gain: We beheld in our father tbe beauty of a Christian Rah. Let not the accounl of his cheer- fulness give you the idea that be nay - 00 lied any trouble. ,But feW Man have so serious and overwhelming a lifeestertggle. He went eut into the world without means, and with no educational opeortunity save that whith was afforded him in the winter months, he 011 old, dilapidated school.- h.ouse, from insteuetere wheat thief work Was to eolled their own? mem. Instead of postponing the marringe re- lation, as rnedern society compels a young num 1 o postpone it, until he can (men at fertile& and be able, at carra mance/mist of the eenjugal relation, to keep 0 eempartion like 11101 Hem; of the tiald, that toll not ner spin, though Solomon, in all his glory, was not errityell like one of these, he chose an early alliance with one who would est with its racket. The churches of God, in whose service he toiled, have arisen as one man to declare bis faith- fulness and to mourn their loss. In church matters he was not afraid to be shot at. Ordained, not by the lay- ing on of human hands, but by the impositiot ef a Saviour's lave he preaohed by his life, in official posi- tion, and le.gilittive hall, and com- mercial circles, a practical Christian- ity. He showed that there was such a thing as honesty in politics. He slaadered no party, stuffed no ballot - box, intoxicated no voters, told no lies, •surrendered no prindple, count- enanced no demagegistrt. Be called Genet, by their right names; and e hat others styled prevarication, exaggera- tion, neisstatetnent, er hyperbole, he called a lie. The morning prayer came upon erie side of the day, and the evening prayer on the other side, and joined each other in an arch above his head, under the shadow of which he walked all the day. The Sabbath worship extended into Monday's con- versation, and Tuesday's bargain, and Wednesday's mirthfulness, and Thurs- day's controversy, and Friday's so- ciality, and Saturday's calculation. HE WORKED UNWEARIEDLY from the sunrise of youth to the sun - eat of old age, and then in the sweet nightfall of death, lighted by the starry promisee, weint home, utking his sheaves with him. I should like to have heard that long, loud, triumphant sbeet ca heaven's weleorae. I think that the harps throbbed with •another thrill, and the hills quaked. with a mightier hallelujah. Hail, esteemed mull thy race is ren—thy toil ended. Hail to thy ooronation I Now, after such a life, whatever!: of death would you bave executed? Will God conduct a voyager through so maity (torn)s, and then Id hira get: shipwresked coming up the Jr lemur? Nett meth an one is my God end Savi- our, 3111 his children, wive that one 101110.11. he seat fed e 'Mee:flag few menthe age, in the good ship "Surprise." to Proclaini the glerine of the Messinh en the other side ofthe earth, Lyres pre ent—eome to pray, tome to bold him band, Immo le bailee Me brow; all tes watehe and wait, and Weep, end rejeire. meted 012101 our children—asked about you. Talks 4P101110,11114P4P1PrIPIP1,4,40,1m. i About the Boum 4 4 0 40.fseweeme•ameosis•44441.44 40,4,4 ENGLISH FLOWER GARDENS. The thutuations and history of the taste for flower gardening in IIngland are more olesely connected vvith the Pllange0 national charades' than most of the dementive and creative ad& says it writer in the London Spec - tater. There is elear evidence that when in the days of Elizabeth and James I„ every one watt building fine eouties, and "all England was a gone - cutter's yard," flowers were sougbe for beauty's sake, flowers which, as Gerardo quantity says et the eweet- williem, "though nee good for the belly, were rneet to deck the breast of beauty." The building of the more feet. Weat keewn as the egriele beet is itutrable ter thildren, Heels, whether IOW or high, etellee Many, ate- eidente, ane are more or less injurions otherWiSe beeaUtie they throw the whoht bear 011t Ot ourreot balemes --- TWO ',CRIED RECIPES. ;Vinegar Caudye—Pet into ti fiance - pan a half cupful of butter, and when it is melted add twe elms ot sugar' and one-half eupful of vipegar, Stir until the sugar is diesoleed and aftexward micartionally mail when tried in ooke water it batman:is brittle, Turn on but- tered plate or tin to cool, Pull and out same as MolaSseti cantle'. Ateparagus eoup—Cut one quart of asparagus Mee inch lengths and boil in one quart of miter until tender, Take out tbe plasm of asparague and rub through a *ooteseelem Return this pulp to the water in which the purely Rendesarese homiest in the days of Charles I., and Charles II., gave us much that was best in the Italian gar- dens—terraces and balustrades of per - feet proportions, good statues, ex- quisite gates fine old leadwork. This is a great inheritance, and the work still remains, and if, sortie complain. of them as of the architecture of St, Peter's, that it is "too rational far, too earthly," others will never cease to en- joy the itetelleetual pleasure of seeing these fine forms, the termites, the W- reaths and the sundials, and the winged horses and tritons by the lakes„ which we borrowed frora Italian brains. Bat the Italian garden is not a flower gar- den. The only thing which we bor- rowed from them on and undext wbich flowers grow is the pergola, Tbeir. gar - demi meant shade, level walks in a country whicb was all hills, water, and marble works, adorned with stat- WM. Even the Spanish gardens of the Alcazer, though tall of orange and citron, have few flowers. We now add to this the brilliant car - Pet bedding, in the formal parts, and the modern "wildernese" with the in- termediate herbaceous garden. The latter bas not in the least killed the admiration for the outdoor architec- tural arts. At the present moment wrought -iron gates, railings, statues of bronze, vases of lead and marble, are - being imported from the anoient chat- eaus of Prance and the villae of ttaly into England, to be sold to the owners of gardens old and new. The day for burial came. An autum- nal Sabbath was let down dear from heaven. At the first gush of the dawn, we said, "This is just the day in whish ler a Clyde:tan to be bur- ied!" Fading leaf indeed under fect told of the decaying body, but stream- ing sunshine spoke of resurreetion joy, They came tottering on their staff— olcl comrades. They came—the poor whose rent he lind paid to keep their children from the blast of winter. They came—the erring men whom be had bailed out of prison. They came— the children wbe bad watched hie stet), and played with his cane, and had of - tee wondered svbat new attraction grandfather would unfold from his deep pocketsno eame—the minis- ters of religion who .had sat with him in church courts, and planned for the advancement of religion. PASSING ALONG THE ROADS where he had. often gone, and by the birthplace of most of his children, we laid him down to ,rest, just as the 0011 WAS setting in the country grave -yard, close bes1de her with wbom for mare than half a century be had walked, and prayed, and stent, and counselled, 11 seemed as if she must speak a greet- ing, but no voice broke the sod, no whisper ran through the grass, no word of recognition was uttered. Side by side Jacob and leathel were buried. Let one willow over-areh their graves, Instead of Iwo marble slabs, as though these of whom we speak were twain, let there be but a single shaft, for they were one. Monument, not pretentious, but plain, for they were old-fashioned people. On one side the merino set the date of their coming and going. On this silee the name of David, the hus- band and father. On that third side the name of Catherine, the wife ate mother. Then there will be but one side unchisellecl. ROW shall we mark it? With story of Christian zeal and self-sacritica for Gnd? No 1 Father and mother would shake their heads if the) were awake Lo rend it. Tbis rather let it be: "The morning Com- xxi. 12. DON'T KICK. THOSE LONG ROOMS. • Long, narrow rooms are raore dif- ficult to furnish artistically than are rooms of better proportions. In furnisbing such rooms the endeavor must constantly be made not to in- teefore with the little width they al- ready have, but to out off the length in effect. Where two long rooms open into asearague was boiled and pimp it on the Move, Stir one tableepoonful of butter svith the sante quantity of flour and add et to one pint of hot milk. Let this cook a feve raomnis and then add it to the asparagus. Season -with salt and peppee and serve after it has boiled up again- ; BOER AMMUNITION. They ffiwo ilhiongli Powder midi nail tor a Tea Years' War. Most of the aanmunition used by the Boers is of German or French menu - Lecture. A conaretratively very small illmntitY was made in England, and an equally small proportion was man- ufacture,d at the Transvaal Govern- ment works, near Pretoria. • A vast ernouut of mystery and see- recy surrounded the Government Pow- der factory, as It as called, and /80 0110 Was allowed to visit it, or even 'atepeemb within half a mile of the indosed buildings without a. very ex- tra special permit. 'The factory was entirely run by Germans, and, curiously enough, the head thereoe, was Mr. Kruger, who Was always careful to assert that he wete no relatioe whatsoever to the Pre - each other, !screeds and portieres may be effectively employed to give them a shorter and therefore broader ap- pearance. A. sofa stood across a cor- ner or a table so pliteed, especially with a screen behind it, helps to break up the length of an apartment. Another way to break mat length is to term a group of objeots, such as a table with books on It and a jardin- iere, with a couple of chairs close to it, as le inviting guests to sit (here; this group should stand three quar- ters of the length of the room from its front or rear and a little to one side, to break the length of the wall Lina. AnoLher way to make a room look less long and narrow is to pima a large rug over the carpet floor and a lessor rug of another color effect just beyond it, placing a table on tbe smaller one. TURNING WEEDS TO ACCOUNT. Don't pull up weeds and then leave Ibsen on the flower bed or throw them down in the path, for the next rain will make many of them grow again, says a writer. Always take a basket with you and go "marketing" in the garden every day for -weeds, and when you have found one, you may possibly Lind two or three or more, account that you have found a treasure and consign it to the compost heap. You will aeon have no need of, Investing a tortune in chemical fertilizer, became you will carry on live and enterprising chemical works of 0110 01011. ley lazy neighbors marvel at the fineness of ray potting soil, after I have sifted it, but it is mostly weeds. I raake the raising ot weeds a business. 1 like weeds, They snake grand flowers, Good weeds, like geed Indians, are the dead ones. This ts an Awful 1.1holtt. Are (5313014 (05,08 Worhe. 21 yea are not satisfied with this snappy weather jest peek your cloth- es and go to some neighboring planet, You can choose from the following kinds of weather: Ye0 will be scorch- ee. on Ideroury by a burniug sun seven times hotter than the treeless. 'You will nexL freeze on Neptune, with 910 times our winter's cold. You will be shriveleJ with everlasting draught on the moon, end drenched, perhaps, with storms something like our own on Kars. You would fine on Jupiter tiecerehing soil, and terrifie storms ot scalding rain—a rain perhaps of ligend metale instead of water, Nowhere would you find green hills. If e ou wantee holly you would have Lo flat up with red lettere! •On Jupiter the shrinking tbat makes mountains and walleye has hardly commenced, and you would find vase hat level plaints and sealiihm lakes and seas. On Mars, if you weigh on earth 140 pounds, you would weigh nnly 70 and could skip lightly ttnd nuirrlly on its surface; on Jupiter your w eight would. bave in- creased to WM pounae, and on tnes your legit woul•I be crushed under /our own weiglat of ewe ions, PROPER AGE TO IfiARRY sident. This seems quite likely, es he was a very decent sort of fellow. The works were near Daspoort, about four miles outside of Pretoria, and in the ixamediate vicinity of the cement works, where so-called Transvaal Port- land cement was very badly made. The powder fa.otery is most jealously guarded from intruders, and even the Italians from the dynamite factory, not many miles away, know nothing of its internal economy. Ib is thought questionable by many wheth- er any menet manufacture takes place here, or wbether, men the ease of dy- namite works, " Mita tfichroi veer Ontpleffbaren Steffen," in the 'Taal," the imported ingredients are just put up in cartridgee on the spot, so as to appear to carry out the requirements of the exclusive concession. THE AMMUNITION Sara:le Grand, very ably nada the signs of the them en die slibjeet et the age, ate Whites gide etionia 1128017. When Wives and daughters were the geode and (Matteis, elm writes, and mem had the principal eV in the reale tar, little gide were oruelly forced to marry at the beginning, inetead or the eompletiou the (Mange from ohild- hood to wonewahooe, They weep made wives, that MU sae, while they were still far from being prefectly develop - eel women playeioally,i and were utter- IY immature mentally, with all their natural woonanly thstinote which ere the only safe guides in the mutter still In abeyance. Fortunately the in- iquity and absurdity oe this, have been thoroughly exposed, and now if par- ents attempted to pita forth their little deughtens ofi 1 coral 12 to 15 into neatrimony as they did with impunity not So very• long ago, the whole world would my shame upon them. The whole tendency of the modern ecluzation for girls is to prolong their girlhood. The ghastly doetrinee that this is eiesessarily, a wicked world, in svhich misery muse be Our portion, no longer finds general aceeptence. It ite a favoritee'axionv with us nowadays that ovemy aye has its pleasure, or ohould have, with 0 fair thance—thila- is taken away at dead of night on mule ;wagons to one or other of the forts around Pretoria, and a portion Is often sent over to the Johannesburg Lori, but not by rail, as the jolting might be dangerous in the ease of the vary carelessly put tcgether explo- sive. An escourt of artillery rides with the wagans and reports the due delivery of• die ammunition. • In the case of foreign -imported are- munition—Lee-Metford, elauser and heavy -gun shells, --it comes by Ger- man, French or Duteh steamer to De- goa Bay, and is there unshipped, stor- ed for a longer or shorter period M the wretched tin shanties on the wharl svhieh do duty eor bonded warehouses, and then, when all the extraordinary Portuguese formalities, are complete, it is forwarded by train, via Korean Poort, to Pretoria, where it is taken, again at the dead of night front tbe railwey station to one of the forts, or to the Government megazine out on the veldt, beyond the racecourse. Now and again, as Mcleod, happened just before the present sear, broke out, the Portuguese officials at Lorenzo Marques, Delagoa Bay, for some rem - eons best known to themselves, refuse to pass the ammunition, and then there is an a»gry and heated exchange ef letters iti a queer mixture of Portu- guese, Dutch arid English, and aftes. a long delay the goods may arrive at their destination, or they may not. In at least one instance an amusing cantreterape occurred. A. large lei of ammunition, some 1200,boxes, went netray at the port end could not be found. The port authorities were Here that they had been landed, hut: the rnilway officials could not account ler them in any way. At last, niter the lapse of meny menthe, it turned out Heat by 801115 un- accountable, arm the whole lot had been RESHIPPED TO BEIRA, end bed g it through the .Buluweye, and WAS comeortably reposing in the magtsines of the Chartered Compane et' 13rilish South Afriere The [leers in- dignantly claimed their eniumnilion Mr. Ithodefes offidals said;" Very well (tome and feLdh ; but, as we happen Ip want seine at this pax•ticular brand ourselves, you had better let us pay for it and say 110 mere on the aule Md." This actuntly heppened, but it WAS never found oul whether the mike lake oceurred on purpose or by mei- dente. On the whole, 31 11318 been found thnt the French ammunition is mere reli- able than that made in Germany, and there has also been less pnlm oil, lest; bribery and corruptinet in its purohnse, thipment and delivery. fn the °ascot one Partioular lot of German' eitrt- ridges, it wee reckoned that the origin- al coat vele quadrupled by the 111111' they reached Pretoria, owing to the eumber of bards tbreugh which they passed, and the number of offetials bad to be "insulted" hefore they were passed, Net only that, but when these cartridges 1701e. Unpadkdd and distrib- uted among the termites it Was found that they were faulty and dangerous, se that whole tratmantion was emin- ently uniettisfattory from every point of ViSW. T11OSS were Mauser cart- , ridges. Chilaren's shoes should be entirely The quantity et anuntinition sturerl nal. in the sole, but pliable enough to and would suffice fora belt years' War, it tile 'era neertril is afineletely edema], give slightly with the motion at the even et die Keen51 rate of usege. hood, girlhood, woman/mod—and to get the full value out of oath. Our intelligent girls begin to have ideas of their 0100 031 the subject or the dis- inesitiou of their lives, prompted, no doubt, by mothers of a new order. They .do nor, eare to be put off with half en edueation and hustled into matrimony while theystill should be doing their school course. They like to enjoy as they go along. They ears - bine recreation with study, and de- light in everything, and it is not un- til they have bad the foundation of a good general education, that they bo- gie to be serious on the subject of nea.trimohy. &glom Is quite the right word for tbeir attitude. Tim meaning of life has mettle to inter- est them, and they pause to inquire. Whet ethey demand in a busbitnd is mem:rade, friend and lover—a superior ii ettainments and talents by all aleans—if possible,. The girl knows quite enoughl tot see the advantage ef that, but one 'Who muel appreciate heir ansi will round for what she Is worth, and help her to the full deed - lumens of such. She cleoidedly objects to marry an extinguisbes, wbo woult tell her that her proper place is in the nursery and kitdhen, .with an inflection on the words that tell her that the nursery en31 kiteben are more worthily regu- lated without mental ad.cancement, and the care of them necessarily pre - eludes any Mil her degree of 001(170- 5100. To such a suitor, the modern girl replies: ''Not for me, tey good man, I am a versatile being, in wham are infinite possibilities, and I mean to make the most of myself. By so doing I make Ise most of you, too., and m of every ca with ,whomt I come en contact," Thinking thus for herself, the mod- ern girl grows gradually more salt - respecting. She recognizes the full indelica,ey of being brought tm as wares for the' merket, to be' disposed ell to a suitor, artd sees no sense in it, either. Let the suitor come and find her. She knows that a wornan'a life is nef longer coneldered a failure dimply because she does not marry, fund this makes her not only independ- ent, but somewhat defiant, the posi- tion being still sufficiently new to be wondered at and not wholly approved. The pendulum, however, swings to- ward approval. We :have considerably less jeering at old maids than forraer- ly, and wet frequently nowadays hear single women whme indeeendenee and fuller interests znake them the envy of many a married sister, whose health hes suffered and liberty been cireum- scribed by whet are only too often the thankless mace of nterried life. Early marriage means early aging for women, end, one eentie,quence of prolonged girlhood is the postpone- ment of married. life. Women pre- serve their umfuluess now much long- er titan used to be the ease. The modern girl marries Inter in life than her predeeessor. ehe feels 'there is no hurry, and takes plenty of time to look about her. The heal by -minded would generally prefer to marry, but just at white age it' is diffieult td determine. 11 seems td me that the only possible answer le the question is the most obvious, namely, when she arrives at years of discretion.This happens at various ages, according to the char- acter of the girl. Some giels are sen - dine women at 19 mei sot:amain never scasible 04 all. The Amelia SmodleY rod of girl is a survival qt the chattel period, andas she never acquires the sorb of discretion whirls is a safe eon. duet through life, It mikes no differ- enee at wham age she marries. She is the clinging sort of a ere:Lure, who looks alma: foe a man to lean upon, and. generally finde one—for men, in theory, Milt prefer Inr. .When they are renewed, if they do not euffer the fate of the (ink, smothered by ' the ivy, but: survive to tell the tale, they stilt ding to the theory, bub they spend the leisure bours of their marriel life et the dub, My own experiencte as to the age At which girls should, marry 18 the well- educated, eolf-reliant, modern maid does well to marry as seou as she fines the right troth, A good husband will help even a very young girl la make ft success of marriage. but 1 think thal, girl of the ela-fitehioned type runs a greet. rink e2 making e mistake, both in' her choice of a hue - bend and ies the /natter OL marrying a,t lI, iE she marries before 25, HOW TO WASH FLANNELS. Thoroughly shake ali dust from your flannels before washing tbern, Pre- pare. a warm suds, to which add a lit- tle borax or aremoala, if you are not so fortunate as to have soh. water. Do not use a washboard. Usethe hest soap but do not rub it on the Gannets. Rub the flannels thoroughly with the hands and wring lightly into another tub oe weaker suds, of the Lome tem- perature. Rinse well ana put into a third wa- ter, dear and still of the same tem- peratuer. Wring nut of this water as dry as possible, and, dry in the open air. Thus treated, flannels should re- main soft and nob shrink. • SOIL FOR cal-mine:Ns. Any good soil will grow carnations and there is much difference in aeine in as to when' is the best. A good plan ie to take eeds teem good pas- ture land to the depth of 4 or 5 hi., Vile them in a heap, adding at the same time one-quarter of good rotted manure, This should be done ((8 80011 as possible, So that the hemp can be turned over once or twice before being put on the beeelme. Either ot them methods is good, and the tatter will be found the cheaper, SHOES FOR cntrxram. MAN I AL EXPOSURE, I wish I knew, said Mr. Turkese how 1 eaught this told, Didn't you gel a bad cold whea you changed your unelerelothee litet ispriug, paw? asked Tommy. Ye.s, I believe I did, Thee ceoldes in your head, ain'l 11 paw? Yes, 1 steles yell go1 it by ehauging your mind.